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From: slb@drutx.UUCP (Sue Brezden)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Amazing Stories 10/5
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Date: Fri, 11-Oct-85 11:38:35 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 11 11:38:35 1985
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>Ah, but this second episode of Amazing Stories deserves more comment in
>passing.  Such subtle, delicately nuanced characterization, not unlike Steve
>Martin playing Hamlet.  The striving for consistent moral outlook, full of
>the cogent meanings and latent ambiguities but rarely found in authentic
>replicas of fortune cookies.  Motivations of individuals and relationships
>between these individuals and events woven into a tapestry (travesty?) of
>cause and effect not seen since Heisenberg first dreamed of an electron
>farting.  And finally, the science; even I, who am inclined to let minor
>points go by for the sake of dramatic or literary license was dumber-struck
>at the sheer elan with which Spielberg extended his range of scientific facts
>and plausibilities to new, if not outer, limits.
>      -- Jim Brunet
>

I did not watch all of the episode in question, since I was cooking
dinner at the time.  However, I did catch the end.  The reason I
saw the end was that I was intrigued by the howling and laughter
coming from the family room where the rest of the family was gathered
around it.  So I went in.  My husband's father, who hates sf and doesn't 
laugh that much, was practically rolling on the floor.  My husband, who 
loves sf, and who ordinarily demands strict accordance with scientific fact,
or at least coherent logical format from his sf, was doing likewise.
My daughter, 12, could not speak--she just pointed to the screen
gestured for me to join them.

In most sf, I agree with you, things like characterization, scientific
accuracy, and so on, are important.  But this was a FARCE.  Different
rules apply.  The important thing was that everyone in front of that set
had FUN.  I think the thing worked--along the lines of "Star Smashers of the
Galaxy Rangers."
-- 

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